Sometime on Jan 6, NA cobbled together some glyphs to say:
Having faith in GNU/Linux..I am not willing to use Windows on my new purcahaes of laptops preloaded this OS. Like Europe, could it be possible for India to get money back by freeing ourself from the Windows tax by returning unused Windows license on new purchase of laptop/PC?
This has been covered before on this list. Just tell your laptop dealer to give you the laptop with no OS and to reduce the cost. One of my friends did that in Bangalore and he got an IBM thinkpad with no OS on it.